Jay Roach Quotes
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
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I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
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Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.
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Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
